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COP Associate Director Ross White Wins Sexton Prize

Ross White, who is the Associate Director of the Conference on Poetry and the Executive Director of Bull City Press, recently won the Sexton Prize for new poetry collection. His manuscript, Charm Offensive, will be published by Eyewear Publishing and distributed in the US, UK, and Ireland. Read more about the prize here.

Ross White is a poet and teacher living in Durham, NC. He is the author of two chapbooks, How We Came Upon the Colony and The Polite Society, and the editor, with Matthew Olzmann, of Another & Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2012, Poetry Daily, New England Review, The Southern Review, and others. He is a recipient of scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the 2014 Pocataligo Poetry Award from Yemassee, and currently teaches poetry writing and grammar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ross serves as the poetry editor of Four Way Review and the director of Bull City Press.